Archives for January 24, 2017

The topic I chose for today’s meeting is not a puny word. For “great”, no matter what is the meaning of this word is different than “major”.

The “major” contains the element of comparison, judgment, and appreciation. It is my next station. It is my next achievement in my profession, in my personal life. It is the goal to which I direct all my productive forces. It is the driving force that makes me go a step further, take more substantial decisions, strive more, get better, achieve today what I did not succeed in doing yesterday.

Major is not the best, but the greatest. The good – better, includes an emotional judgment that contains the personal element. Unlike the great, the major, the largest only contains numerical distinction, which diminishes the possibility of misinterpretation due to emotional parameters. So the good – better is great, but great – major is safer, it is resistant to criticism and this is what Christ applied when judging his colleagues.

He measured the talents they had acquired with their own effort and their own capital and not how good people they were.

Alloy is called the material which comes from mixing various materials. This new material, the alloy, is precious to our lives because almost all the utensils and tools we use today are made of alloys of various materials.

What changes every time is the proportion of materials that are mixed in order to come up with the new material that will meet our needs. The ancient Greeks used the term for wine – there is a different term for “wine” in ancient and modern Greek – because in order to be suitable for use it had to be mixed with water in ceramic vessels, vases.

What is the difference between mixing and alloying? In the case of the alloy the blending is perfect, in the new product the materials became one and that’s how you see it. And this element, the definitive mixing of the element of living faith in the living God in our everyday life, is what we all need today.

Without a living faith that brings benefit and daily profit, our time, ideas, desires, our knowledge resemble gold that is hidden in the soil, unknown and untapped.